The Kennedy Lecture Series presents Dr. Keith Devlin on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium. Devlin is ‘the Math Guy” on National Public Radio.
Dr. Keith Devlin
Devlin will discuss “Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius who Beat Apple to Market by 800 Years.”
Devlin is a mathematician at Stanford University in California, a co-founder and Executive Director of the university’s H-STAR institute, a co-founder of the Stanford Media Xresearch network, and a Senior Researcher at CSLI. He is a World Economic Forum Fellow, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, according to his website.
“The first personal computing revolution took place not in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, but in Pisa in the 13th century,” Devlin says. “The medieval counterpart to Steve Jobs was a young Italian called Leonardo, better known today by the nickname Fibonacci. Thanks to a recently discovered manuscript in a library in Florence, the story of how this little-known genius came to launch the modern commercial world can now be told.”
This event is free and open to the public. More information about the Kennedy Lecture Series.
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